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THE BOOK THIEF
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Liesel Meminger
~Education: Hitler Youth School
~Home: Himmel Street
~Hobby: Stealing Books from Ilsa Hermann's library

Family:
  • Bother (passed away on the train)
  • Mother (sent her to step parents)
  • Step parents
    • Rosa Hubermann
    • Hans Hubermann
Friends:
  • Rudy
  • Soccer Buds
  • Ilsa Hermann (mayor's wife)
  • Max Vandenburg (Jew living in her basement)

Fakebook Conversation:
Liesel: Max do you ever have dreams?
Max: Yes.
Liesel: What do you see?
Max: I see myself waving goodbye.
Liesel: To who?
Max: My family when they were taken away.
Liesel: I have dreams too.
Max: What do you see?
Liesel: Most times when I dream I see my brother dying on the train right in front of me.
Max: Why?:
Liesel: Because it actually happened on the journey here.
Max: I am sorry to hear that, but what do you do when you have the dreams.
Liesel: I normally wake up crying and papa (Hans) comes into my room to settle me down. We read a few chapters from a book of my choice and then I go back to sleep with him watching me from across the room. Then, in the morning he will sometimes play his accordion.
Max: My fat he use to be able to play the accordion too.
Hanns: Do you no who taught me to play the accordion?
Liesel: Nope.
Max: No.
Hanns: Max it was your father.



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Assignment #1:
  • Main Characters
    • Narrator (shadow of death)
    • The Book Thief
      • Liesel Meminger
    • Foster Parents
      • Hans Hubermann
      • Rosa Hubermann
    • Rudy
  • Minor Characters:
    • Grave Digger
    • Liesel's Brother and Mother
    • Frau Heinrich
    • Liesel's soccer friends (except Rudy)
    • The wealthy bosses of Mama
    • Rudy's father
    • Sister Maria
    • 2 kids who Liesel beat up
  • How the Minor Characters affect the main Characters:
    • Frau Heinrich affects Liesel because she helps out at the foster home. She will be one of the main people taking care of Liesel each day while she is there.
    • The Grave digger affected Liesel because he dropped the book that Liesel picked up and now has in her possession.
    • The brother affected Liesel because she saw him die right infront of her and now Liesel has to be at the foster home alone.
    • The mother affected Liesel because she is the one that sent Liesel to the foster home.
  • Decisions I disagree with:
    • Liesel's Mama abusing and swearing at here because Liesel has been going through some big changes in here life and needs comfort and support. She has lost a brother recently and saw him die, her mother left her, and she is reminded of this everyday she wakes up.The fact that her mother makes her do her (Mama's) work while watching is abusive. She made her clean up the spit from Frau and collect laundry from rich people that are very snobby.
    • I do not agree with Liesel's decision to beat up the kids because violence is not the answer. In a way though i do agree with what she did because she stood up t them, and now they do not make fun of her level of reading. I think it was great that she stuck up for herself, but beating them up is not the right way to do so.
  • How the story changed my thinking:
    • The way the father explained the Nazi situation to Liesel made me realize that as a parent explaining what Hitler and the Nazi's were doing would be hard. It would hard because you would want the child to be aware of the situation without knowing the full story.
  • Great reflections, Maddie. I agree that as a parent, you would be torn between making your child aware of the situation so he or she knew how to stay safe, yet you wouldn't want to make your child so afraid. Liesel really lost her innocence growing up in this environment as did many young children who survived this war.